Re: Backing up - is db/current written last?

On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 05:01 +0700, Soren 'Frank' Munch wrote:
> Daniel wrote:
> > db/current is written last by svn.
> >
> > Also, fsfs is still transactional, so the commits are stored in the
> > transaction directory until they are moved into place, and *then*
> > db/current is updated.
>
> Great! In that case db/current _must_ point to a set of valid file and there's
> no reason to delay rsync.
Rsync builds the list of files first, *then* transfers them.

Thus, the case to worry about is if it transfers db/current *after*
another commit has occurred during the rsync (and the newly created
revision file is thus not in rsync's list of files), and then you have a
db/current that refers to something that wasn't transferred.

Hence the reason to transfer it first.

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Received on Sun Jul 3 04:35:31 2005